A Kiss for Cinderella (film)
A Kiss for Cinderella is a 1925 silent fantasy taken from the 1916 stage play by James M. Barrie. The film stars Betty Bronson and Tom Moore and was made at Paramount's Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens. The play had starred stage actress Maude Adams in the Bronson role.[1][2][3][4]
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1925 lobby poster | |
Directed by | Herbert Brenon |
Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky |
Written by | James M. Barrie (play) Willis Goldbeck (scenario) Townsend Martin (scenario) |
Starring | Betty Bronson Tom Moore Esther Ralston Dorothy Cumming |
Cinematography | J. Roy Hunt |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 10 reels; 9,686 feet |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent film (English intertitles) |
Herbert Brenon directed as he had directed the 1924 film version of Barrie's Peter Pan which also starred Bronson. Tom Moore had previously costarred in The Cinderella Man for Goldwyn in 1917 alongside Mae Marsh.
Surviving print of this film is preserved at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, George Eastman House and UCLA Film and TV as well as a foreign archive Cinematheque Royale de Belgique (Brussels).[5]
Plot
In London during World War One, a simple-minded slavey awaits her Fairy Godmother and her Prince Charming.
Cast
- Betty Bronson - Cinderella (Jane)
- Esther Ralston - Fairy Godmother
- Dorothy Cumming - Queen
- Tom Moore - Policeman
- Flora Finch - Customer
- Ivan Simpson (as Ivan F. Simpson) - Mr. Cutaway
- Edna Hagen - Gretchen
- Dorothy Walters - Mrs. Maloney
References
- The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
- The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..A Kiss for Cinderella
- A Kiss for Cinderella at silentera.com
- Magill's Survey of Silent Films, Vol2. FLE-POT p.634 edited by Frank N. Magill c.1982 ISBN 0-89356-241-6 (3 book set ISBN 0-89356-239-4) Retrieved June 27, 2018
- The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: A Kiss for Cinderella
External links
- A Kiss for Cinderella at IMDb
- allmovie/synopsis; A Kiss for Cinderella
- theatrical poster for A Kiss for Cinderella
- a larger version of the lobby poster for A Kiss for Cinderella